Forgotten Ally: China’s World War II, 1937-1945 - Rana Mitter Audiobook
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The epic, untold story of China’s devastating eight-year war of resistance against Japan.
For decades, a major piece of World War II history has gone virtually unwritten. The war began in China, two years before Hitler invaded Poland, and China eventually became the fourth great ally, partner to the United States, the Soviet Union, and Great Britain. Yet its drama of invasion, resistance, slaughter, and political intrigue remains little known in the West.
Rana Mitter focuses his gripping narrative on three towering leaders: Chiang Kai-shek, the politically gifted but tragically flawed head of China’s Nationalist government; Mao Zedong, the Communists’ fiery ideological stalwart, seen here at the beginning of his epochal career; and the lesser-known Wang Jingwei, who collaborated with the Japanese to form a puppet state in occupied China. Drawing on Chinese archives that have only been unsealed in the past ten years, he brings to vivid new life such characters as Chiang’s American chief of staff, the unforgettable “Vinegar Joe” Stilwell, and such horrific events as the Rape of Nanking and the bombing of China’s wartime capital, Chongqing. Throughout, Forgotten Ally shows how the Chinese people played an essential role in the wider war effort, at great political and personal sacrifice.
Forgotten Ally rewrites the entire history of World War II. Yet it also offers surprising insights into contemporary China. No twentieth-century event was as crucial in shaping China’s worldview, and no one can understand China, and its relationship with America today, without this definitive work.
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This post has 14 comments with rating of 4.9/5
February 4th, 2023
Tragic to reflect that, over time, a liberal democratic tradition could have bedded down in China, & cooperation engendered amongst the community of nations. Ideological genocide could have been prevented. In addition, the market system reforms arrived too late for all those millions starved by the ideological regime. A great & beautiful people who deserve so much more than the oppressive system & mindless ideology they are forced to exist under.
February 4th, 2023
Thank you for this!
February 5th, 2023
Can someone please seed? Simon Vance is a fantastic narrator and this is a fascinating subject.
February 5th, 2023
Thanks for sharing
February 5th, 2023
been looking forward to this being posted, cheers!
February 6th, 2023
Read a lot of the Sino wars (this is the 2nd one), always so much more to learn and understand. Great upload!
February 6th, 2023
@Hogweed and others,
Here’s a good companion to this:
https://militaryaudio.com/audio-books/stilwell-and-the-american-experience-in-china-1911-45-barbara-w-tuchman-2/
February 7th, 2023
Good upload. Thanks.
China’s lifted 800 million people out of poverty over the past 40 years.Tragic to reflect that, over time it might have developed into a nation with 39 million in poverty, and a crime rate double the one it has at this time.
February 8th, 2023
…by abandoning failed ideological economics (missed that bit). Too late for the in excess of 70 million human beings killed in the Great Leap Famine, Cultural Revolution, the courageous protestors of Tiananmen Square who wanted democratic reform & human rights at last, the widespread repression, and on and on.
Not to forget the ongoing genocide of the Uyghur people, of course.
Tragic to reflect that such genocide is being pursued with impunity, and that there are no fundamental human rights. These are, of course, the very worst crimes, if only ideologues could reason.
Naturally, they don’t understand that “relative poverty” is the operative measure here. There are still in excess of 100 million malnourished people in China, the majority of those people living in rural locations. Their poor diet leads to a high rate of growth stunting in children (9.4 percent). Extreme ideology causes such failures & delays in social development. Another terrible crime perpetrated against the people.
Indeed, a great & beautiful people who deserve so much more than the oppressive system & mindless ideology they are forced to exist under.
February 9th, 2023
Quote: ‘Their poor diet leads to a high rate of growth stunting in children (9.4 percent).’ According to indexmundi the prevalence of undernourishment in the population of China is exactly the same as that in the UK and USA,despite the difference in ideology. It’s 2.5% Look it up.The huge difference in numbers of people undernourished between China and other countries is, in developed countries at least, down to China having a population of 1.4 billion.
Everything is relative including indicators of poverty.While 100million is 7.14% of China’s 1.4 billion, 39 million is 11.7% of America’s 331 million
February 9th, 2023
Before anybody else says it, ‘malnourished’ is not the same as ‘impoverished’ Just that the latter is likely to be the cause of the former.
February 11th, 2023
As I observed, China has improved enormously by abandoning failed ideological economics. This is absolutely key, demonstrating the success of market economics, & utter failure of mindless ideological economics. However, too late for more than 70 m human beings killed in the Great Leap Famine, Cultural Revolution, Tiananmen Square (with echoes currently in Hong Kong), general repression, etc.
Significantly, as observed, there are “in excess” of 100 million specifically malnourished people in China, with the actual number being 150.8 million. So, not 7.14% - actually 10.58% - with rates of 9.4% for stunting in children, 19.6% for anemia.
33.8 million people in America live in “food insecure” households. This represents 10.21% of the 331 million population.
For further comparison, my own evil, capitalist country has 145,000 people (too many) who are either malnourished, or at risk. This represents 2.94% of the pop (total: 4.94 m). In most cases this is due to illness, but psychological factors such as substance abuse can be determinative.
By contrast, an unfortunate people who still suffer unimaginably under your failed, inhuman ideological economics, those of North Korea, have levels of malnourishment amounting to 42% of the population. Spare a thought for them also.
The crime issue ought not be diverted from either. Considering the appalling human rights violations & repression under the Chinese regime - which did abandon failed ideological economics, but not the associated ideological oppression which has cost so many lives - these of course represent the most dire crimes against humanity.
The ongoing genocide of the Uyghur people being the most grave set of regime crimes, with the existence of a a system of concentration camps (standard in what amounts to slave state regimes) - these crimes are being committed with impunity. People cannot appeal regime crimes, as they have no recourse to fundamental human rights which could remediate their suffering. These are, of course, the very worst crimes, perpetrated by the ideological regime against the people - because the people are always the enemy of such regimes.
February 18th, 2023
@opacupa Thanks for the tip but there’s no seeder :-(
July 18th, 2023
You’re a treasure Rmoor. This book is absolutely right. China was are ally and we abandoned them thanks to a cabal of communists in the state department who left our Chinese allies to the horror of Mao and his revolution, in which 50-100 million were killed and is today the legacy of the transnational criminals of the CCP.
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